plant stemless. leaves to 45 cm long, exceeding the inflorescence, subdensely lepidote with brown appressed scales, sheaths elliptic, 8–10 cm long, dark castaneous, blades ligulate, acuminate, 25 mm wide, flat, green. inflorescence: peduncle erect, short; peduncle bracts strict, densely imbricate, foliaceous, the upper ones roseate; fertile part once-branched, 15 cm long; primary bracts broadly ovate with a subtriangular blade, erect, much exceeding the fewflowered fascicles, roseate with a castaneous base; floral bracts lanceolate, in flexed at the apex, exceeding the sepals, their apical third pale brown and subchartaceous, elsewhere castaneous and coriaceous. flowers subsessile; sepals like the floral bracts, 20 mm long, free.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). in Flora Neotropica.